- Abstract:
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Activity involving the composition of a rhythmic chant that can be used for supporting a school sports team or other occasion.
- Subject:
- Arts
- Grade Level:
- Primary
- Collection:
- Scoilnet
Activity involving the composition of a rhythmic chant that can be used for supporting a school sports team or other occasion.
This module represents many of the various choral activities that can enhance a choral program in schools, communities and churches. These include festivals, clinics, exchanges, dinners, and commissioning a choral work for performance.
This module is a discussion of the virtue of a clinic for a choral ensemble. Included are several suggested schedules, pre-clinic rehearsal suggestions and post-clinic analyses and rehearsal suggestions.
This module represents the area of developing a choral department budget. While this is directed mostly at the choral director in a school its premise also applies to community and church choral directors. Material is presented to remind the director of budget development, how it must be shown to benefit the students (choir members), and its logical development as it pertains to those who receive the budget request and will make decisions about it.
This module illustrates an ideal high school choral department while noting that successful choral programs exist without the full complement of ensembles or with several but not all. It is important that, no matter the size of the department, the student have a satisfying choral singing experience.
This module represents recommendations for various public relations activities to promote the choral department. These are appropriate for school, college, community and church choral departments. They include websites, email directories, newspaper, television and radio releases, poster announcements and others.
This module represents a discussion of the planning and organization of choral festivals that engage several or many choirs. These can be held at different levels including at local community level, regional or state levels and, international levels.
The discussion also includes ideas for preparation of the singers prior to the festival.
Festivals can be a source of singing pleasure for the participants.
This module represents recommendations for choral library systems filing music, distributing music for rehearsal and for storing choral music. Various processes are discussed.
This module represents comments regarding the basic choral tone. It is further illustrated by following modules.
This module represents basic information about the choral tone, provides a series of questions and suggested readings.
'Black Nativity.'A Say Brother special presentation, 'Christmas in Color', features the Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts' musical adaptation of Langston Hughes' 'Black Nativity,' which was performed in-studio. Additional segments include a mime performance by Halim Adbur Rashid (Fred Johnson) and a 'Christmas Cabaret' featuring four songs by vocalist Chip Garnett with back-up vocalists Cheryl Freeman and Sheryl Shell. Produced by Barbara Barrow-Murray.
Learn how music was used in the Civil War.
For those new to music history, a discussion of the meaning of the term "classical music", and an introduction to the Western art music of the second half of the eighteenth century.
Follow the course of classical music in America from colonial times to the present in a series of NPR podcasts.
List of suitable pieces for classroom use together with a description of the features of each piece, details of the composer, style and level of difficulty, and the name of the publisher and cost.
The clef symbol on a musical staff tells you which pitches belong on the lines and spaces of that staff.
This module represents a discussion of the attributes and detractions of clinics, contests and festivals and elements of each including preparation for them.
In this video segment from Jazz at Lincoln Center, jazz musicians perform a collective improvisation.
This module addresses the importance of good supervision on the part of the college or university faculty member assigned to supervise a student teacher.
This module discusses the several elements of combining various ensembles in a concert. There are logistical issues such as how to move the groups on and to the stage, where ensembles are seated when not performing, and others. The musical concerns are also addressed such as contrasting musical styles and contrasting select ensembles with less select ensembles.